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Foreign Remittances Go Digital: Celebrating Families
Nothing says family like money and – probably – the quintessential American experience is captured by the immigrant worker who sticks a few dollars in an envelope, glues on an airmail stamp and sends that $5 or $20 off to Mumbai or Lahore. We now are in National Family Month which means it is especially ...
Anirban Banerjee on Five Reasons a Website Gets Blacklisted
Zappos.com, Sony PlayStation Network and Citibank—they’re strange bedfellows. But if you hadn’t guessed, what these three have in common is the scarlet “H” they’ve been slapped with in recent headlines: Hacked. One consequence of a website hack is that it can infect thousands of visitors who trusted the website enough to visit it. The personal ...
Flash Master: Real World Cases for Performance Scale Up and More
Flash memory is taking the data center world by storm and creating disruptive opportunities to challenge the status quo, overcoming the capacity challenges of RAM and the performance challenges of hard disks to enable innovative new architectures. This article discusses several different real-world use cases for SQL Server, MySQL web scale, and performance scale up within a ...
Mobile App Developers Must Weigh Collecting Data, Privacy
Developers, by nature, want to build the coolest and most useful applications on the market. This often means packing a mobile application with all the latest features and functionality that the platform makes available. Accelerometer? Absolutely! Camera? Definitely! GPS? Yes, please! We tend to forget that the user needs to give up personal information in ...
Virtual Desktops – Not On Top of Your Desk Anymore
Today’s workforce is changing the concept of where work is done. Thanks to laptops, smartphones and thin client devices, mobile workers are empowered to work where, when and however they choose. As a result, telecommuting and ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) programs are on the rise. IT organizations are scrambling to meet the onslaught of ...
Five Things Every SaaS Start-up Should Know About Scaling
Editor’s Note: this is a guest post from Chris Cook, COO at New Relic. For SaaS start-ups, tasks like scaling web applications must compete with a long list of other priorities. But not having a performance and scalability strategy in place can spell ruin and quickly grind your business to a halt. In a ...